Christina Callicott
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Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca Part 7
Conclusion: It’s all fun and games… As I mentioned in the first post of my series, anthropologists and ethnobiologists have played an outsized role in studying and popularizing ayahuasc… → Read More
Pandora’s Brew Part 6
Oklevueha Native American Church In addition to the widespread appropriation of Native North American culture that characterizes neo-shamanic discourse, the current spate of ayahuasca churches in t… → Read More
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca Part 5
“The New Paradigm” Yesterday marked exactly a year since Ayahuasca Healings submitted to the DEA their petition for exemption from the Controlled Substances Act. The cover letter, dated… → Read More
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca Part 3
Part 3: Legality (or lack thereof) (In the last post, I promised to start this one with some explanation of what goes into ayahuasca that makes it the concern of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, and… → Read More
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca
Part 2: The New Ayahuasca Churches Yesterday I sat in on a webinar sponsored by ICEERS (the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service) and organized by anthropologist … → Read More
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Christina Callicott. I’m guessing that by now most of my readers will have heard of this stuff called “ayahuasca.” Everyone from Stephen Colbert to the New Yorke… → Read More